The authorities in Chile have closed one of the country's most popular national parks as a massive forest fire continues to rage through the area.Officials said more than 85 sq km (21,000 acres) are destroyed, suspected "human negligence" triggered the fi

Saturday December 31, 2011, 11:23 pm
This is so sad. Whilst causing the fire was not intentional, the carelessness and intentional defiance of rules, by the tourist, had wrought immeasurable damage. All it took was this one person. How can amends be made? Are there programs in place which would make it compulsory for such people to spend years on site to work to rehabilitate the damage?

Sunday January 1, 2012, 3:28 am
Unfortunately, negligence is a good way to describe how many human caused fires start. It is surprising how many humans fail to understand how the action they take could start a chain of events, like this.